Product Management Director

Overview

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Franklin Templeton US Product & Specialty Sales is seeking an exceptional candidate to join the team as a Product Management Director within the US Product Management, Governance and Implementation team. This role involves collaborating across various teams to manage the lifecycle of US products, ensuring competitive, profitable, and client-focused solutions.

US Product Management, Governance and Implementation serves as product subject matter experts within US Distribution, demonstrating a deep understanding of the assigned product range, firm s overall investment capabilities and specific products. The team manages the lifecycle of the US product lineup ensuring success through competitive and profitable solutions that meet client expectations and deliver on objectives and outcomes.

This individual will collaborate with US Distribution, investment managers, and other key business functions to manage retail products sold in the US with a focus on comingled funds such as mutual funds and variable insurance funds and an emphasis on fixed income.

Product Range Management

• Lead efforts with investment teams and distribution leaders to assess, make recommendations and manage assigned product range to ensure the competitiveness of existing products; make recommendations to modify product features and pricing, and/or to merge or liquidate
• Collaborate with US Product Strategy and others within Franklin Templeton to identify gaps within the existing product range and define the product management roadmap for US Distribution, ensuring it meets both current market demands and long-term strategic goals
• Work with US Product Management, Governance & Implementation, investment teams and others in US Distribution to ensure timely and successful delivery of USD’s product strategy, including rationalization
• Identify, evaluate and communicate current and emerging regulatory and market trends and determine potential implications to products within the assigned product range

Product Structuring & Pricing

• Apply product and investment expertise of assigned product range and regulatory regime to identify product gaps and recommend proposals to modify product features and pricing, and/or to merge or liquidate products.
• Gather feedback and input from US Distribution and internal partners, including legal, compliance, finance and investment management to develop product proposals.
• Routinely review pricing for assigned product range, including as part of the annual 15c contract renewal process, to ensure that products remain competitively priced within the US while providing acceptable profitability levels to Franklin Templeton

Product Positioning & Sales Support

• Analyze product characteristics and industry data to develop cross investment team product positioning including data-driven proof points, market trends, and product attributes, driven by and in collaboration with investment teams for assigned product range; articulate product positioning relative to competitors to US Distribution and US Marketing
• Support US Distribution by researching and providing answers to questions related to product management lifecycle for assigned product range (e.g., pricing, timing of product changes, launches, mergers, and closures).
• Act as the primary internal resource for the assigned product range by providing leadership in representing product to investment teams and other…